Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 2 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
| 3 | His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine . |
| 4 | We developed and built the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon , and the first satellite for geosynchronous orbit . |
| 5 | And we developed and built the first air-launched anti-tank missile , as well as the first launch-and-leave imaging infrared homing air-to-surface missile . |
| 6 | Rupert Moon started and finished the first , bagging his first Test try in only his second international , while new cap Simon Hill went one better when he claimed a kick and chase try after only seven minutes on the international stage . |
| 7 | For in 1904 Lincoln Bush patented the Bush shed and installed the first at the Hoboken station of the Delaware , Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1906 . |